Jonathan Safran Foer 
Here I Am 

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Everything is Illuminated and We are the Weather – a rich and moving novel about modern family lives and the ties that bind
 »Towering and glorious: a tale of social, familial and marital breakdown and the End of the World. The funniest literary novel I have ever read » The Times
 »A rich, beautifully written, ambitious and grandly moving novel, which looks both at the world at large and at the deepest concerns of individual lives » Evening Standard

 »Lays bare the interior of a marriage with such intelligence and deep feeling and pitiless clarity, it »s impossible to read it and not re-examine your own family » Time

 »Astonishing. So sad and so funny and so wry » Scotland on Sunday
Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . .
By Jacob »s grandfather, who won »t go quietly into a retirement home.
By the family reunion, that everyone is dreading.
By their son »s heroic attempts to get expelled.
And by the sexting affair that will rock their marriage.
A typical modern American family, the Blochs cling together even as they are torn apart. Which is when catastrophe decides to strike . . .
Confronting the enduring question of what it means to be human with inventiveness, playfulness and compassion, Here I Am is a great American family novel for our times, an unmissable read for fans of Jonathan Franzen and Michael Chabon, a masterpiece about how we live now.